Plato Quotes
+30Even the gods love jokes.
- Plato
+14Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
- Plato
+3The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future.
- Plato
+2The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
- Plato
+1Love a grave mental disease.
- Plato
+1Only the dead have seen the end of war.
- Plato
+1All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
- Plato
+1At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
+1You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
- Plato
+1Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
- Plato
+1Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
- Plato
+1Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
- Plato
+1The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
+1A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
- Plato
+1Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
+1Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
- Plato
+1Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Plato
+1Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Plato
+1What I say is that ‘just’ or ‘right’ means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.
- Plato
+1They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
- Plato
+1When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.
- Plato
+1Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
- Plato
+1Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
- Plato
+1Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here.
- Plato
+1Geometry existed before creation.
- Plato